Time Attendance forIreland

Biometric time clocks use unique biological traits—facial recognition or fingerprint scanning—to verify employee identity at every clock-in. This makes it impossible for one employee to clock in for another, completely eliminating buddy punching.

No. On ClockIt biometric terminals the scan is converted to an encrypted mathematical template on the device itself and stored on that device. The template is never uploaded to us, so there is no biometric database on ClockIt's servers. What the terminal sends over ADMS is an employee ID and the time of the punch. Note that the ClockIt Kiosk app for tablets works differently — it captures a photo on each punch and stores it in your account for review.

Four things: the employee ID as enrolled on the terminal, the date and time of the punch, whether it was a clock in or a clock out, and a job or cost code if your team keys one. No fingerprint image, no face image and no biometric template crosses the connection.

Fingerprints and faces are never stored as images. They are converted to encrypted binary templates that cannot be reverse-engineered back into the original scan, and on ClockIt terminals those templates stay in the device's own storage rather than being sent to the cloud. Attendance records held by ClockIt — IDs and timestamps — are encrypted in transit and at rest.

No time clock can do that on its own, and you should be sceptical of any vendor that claims otherwise. Keeping templates on the device narrows your exposure considerably, but Illinois BIPA and the GDPR still require you to obtain written consent before enrolling anyone, to tell employees what is collected and why, and to publish a retention and destruction schedule. Those obligations sit with you as the employer regardless of where the template is stored.

You delete their enrolment on the terminal, which destroys the template on the device. Their attendance history remains in ClockIt for payroll and audit purposes, because a record of employee IDs and timestamps is not biometric data. If you decommission a terminal, clear its enrolments before it leaves your premises.

Yes, and in several jurisdictions you are required to offer an alternative. The same ClockIt terminal supports PIN codes and RFID or NFC badges alongside face and fingerprint, so an employee who declines biometric enrolment can still clock in on the same device with the same attendance rules applied.

Yes. Our facial recognition devices are equipped with infrared technology that allows them to accurate identify and authenticate employees even in dimly lit environments or complete darkness.

Yes! The ClockIt mobile app includes photo verification features. While not a fingerprint scanner, it captures a photo at clock-in/out and uses GPS to verify the employee's identity and location, perfect for mobile teams.

For employees who may have difficulty with one method (e.g., worn fingerprints), our system supports multiple authentication modes. You can enable facial recognition, PIN codes, or RFID badges as alternative clock-in methods for specific users.

Our facial recognition time clocks offer a completely touchless experience. Employees simply look at the device to clock in, which eliminates contact points and reduces the spread of germs, making it ideal for healthcare and food service industries.

Absolutely. All attendance data captured by the biometric devices syncs effectively with the ClockIt cloud platform. From there, you can review timesheets and export accurate data directly to your payroll software like QuickBooks, ADP, or Xero.

For fingerprint or dedicated facial recognition, you can use our compatible biometric terminals. However, for a software-only approach, our Kiosk app on any tablet (iPad/Android) offers facial verification features without proprietary hardware.

It's split-second fast. Our advanced biometric algorithms identify and authenticate an employee in less than a second, ensuring that shift changes are smooth and don't create bottlenecks at the time clock.

Yes, ClockIt supports integration with various ADMS Server platforms. This allows you to connect your biometric time clocks seamlessly with our cloud system for centralized management and reporting.

To take advantage of our free biometric time clock offer, simply sign up for a ClockIt account with 100 users, you will also need to suscribe to our annual plan. Reach out to support and they will arrnange for the deivce to be shipped.

Yes, our biometric time clocks come preconfigured to work seamlessly with your ClockIt account. Once you receive the device, simply connect it to your network and it will automatically sync with your account for immediate use.

Yes. The terminal can ask for a job, project or cost code as part of the punch. Depending on the model the device prompts for the code straight after the face or fingerprint match, or takes the code first and then verifies the employee. Either way the code is sent to ClockIt along with the punch over ADMS, so the hours arrive already attached to the right job.

Yes. A code entered on the terminal resolves to the same Projects and Tasks employees select in the ClockIt web and mobile apps. You maintain one list, and project reports, billable versus non-billable hours and job costing include terminal punches alongside app and browser punches.

Job codes are captured on ZKTeco, eSSL and NGTeco terminals connected to ClockIt over ADMS push. It uses the connection your device already has, so there is no firmware change, no extra hardware and no local PC — a keypad on the terminal is all that is required.

Yes. Because each punch carries its job code, ClockIt totals hours per project and per task without anyone re-keying a paper job sheet. You can mark hours billable or non-billable, run project reports for costing, and export the same data to payroll or an invoice.

No. The biometric device only sends raw punches to ClockIt — it is the shift window in ClockIt that decides which day a punch belongs to. In a time template you can turn on Night Shift and set your own 24-hour window, for example 7:00 PM to 6:59 PM the next day, so an employee who clocks in at 10:00 PM and out at 6:00 AM is never split across two days.

Yes. Enable Night Shift on the time template and set the shift start and end so they span a full 24-hour window around the shift. ClockIt then groups all punches inside that window into one shift, and the work duration is credited to the day the shift started. Late minutes, early departures and overtime inside the shift are all calculated against the night shift's expected IN and OUT times.

Yes. You can create as many time templates as you need under each site — for example separate day, evening and night patterns — and assign employees to the template they are actually working, changing it as the roster rotates. Hotels, hospitals, security firms and manufacturing plants use this to run continuous round-the-clock coverage on the same biometric devices.